Construction at a Roxbury job site was stopped Wednesday when workers said they were struck by metal pellets.
According to a Boston Police incident report, at about 8:00 a.m. Wednesday, two workers on the third floor of the project at 1011 Harrison Avenue told their supervisors they were struck.
Police and Boston EMS were called.
The workers refused any medical treatment.
The single-page report is redacted, but it tells us that work was shut down for several hours to investigate what happened and where the metal came from.
Eventually, small pellets, believed to be BB gun pellets, were found and shown to police.
During the day there appeared to be minimal construction activity on scene.
It appeared most of the construction workers were sent home.
The construction site is the future home of the Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology.
The contractor, Dellbrook One Way, broke ground on this campus in Nubian Square in March 2024.
The project is seen as a rebirth for both the Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology and to Nubian Square.
The City of Boston has worked with the school to develop the area, spending $4 million to help move the school from the South End to Roxbury.
Construction is expected to be completed in the Fall of 2025.
We don’t know the source of the pellets.
Calls to the Iron Workers Union and to Dellbrook were not returned.
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